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…high school I discovered a book of poems by Pablo Neruda, with the Spanish original and English on pages side by side. It was a wonderful reading experience, and I learned quite a lot from it. Neruda: Selected Poems (Bilingual Edition)
on “The New Old Way of Learning Languages (2008)” ↗I don't know anything about this paparazzi crusade or this _why fellow, but I do like me some absurdist poetry. Kharms is pretty good...highly recommend Russel Edson http://www.amazon.com/Tunnel-Selected-Poems-Russell-Edson/dp..., and for prose Donald Barthelme (e.g. Don B's last _fake_ tweet https://twitter.com/donb/status/273048668519690240) edit: posted link to best intro to R.E.
on “_why's site is back up” ↗…novel, publish a high-traffic blog or something. There are also writers who can do all of these: my personal favourite is Robert Graves (possibly because once many years ago I got him to autograph his Selected Poems and his memoir Goodbye to all That).
on “The art of over-engineering your side projects” ↗…Yukio - Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea, The Mitford, Jessica - American Way Of Death, The Nabokov, Vladimir - Lolita Norman, Howard - Bird Artist, The Norris, Frank - McTeague O’Hara, Frank - Selected Poems Orwell, George - 1984 Orwell, George - Inside The Whale And Other Essays Packard, Vance - Hidden Persuaders, The Pagels, Elaine - Gnostic Gospels, The Paglia, Camille - Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence…
on “David Bowie’s Top 100 Books (2013)” ↗…- sent in 31 different entries, by post, under false names and with varying levels of absurdity. He didn't win. You can find them at https://www.ubu.com/ubu/pdf/moore_spleen.pdf, or in his published Selected Poems, along with an essay (written afterwards) about translation. Worth looking out. (I particularly admire the sarcastic one that begins "I'm like The Winner of The Competition / The one who wrote the strong,…
on “Fleurs du Mal” ↗